Hungary’s Orban arrives in Georgia after disputed election
In a photo posted on his X feed on Oct. 28, 2024, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center-right, is seen arriving in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Building collapse in Nigeria’s capital leaves at least 7 dead
Scavengers work at the scene of a collapsed building in suburban Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 28, 2024.
State University of New York at Fredonia is trying a new method to help international music students feel at home.
A professor at the school hosts informal chats — known as “international chat” — several times a semester. The goal, the school says in an article, is to function “as a study group session for international students facing challenges that are unique to international students.”
Read the full story here. (October 2024)
Around 40 killed in Chad in jihadist attack on army
FILE – An aerial view shows Ngouboua after it was attacked by Boko Haram militants, Feb. 13, 2015. An attack by the group on Oct. 27, 2024, targeted a garrison in the area housing more than 200 Chadian soldiers.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on Friday to deliver a long-awaited official apology to Native Americans for the federal boarding school system that severed the family, tribal and cultural ties of thousands of Indian children over multiple generations.
“I say this with all sincerity: This, to me, is one the most consequential things I’ve ever had an opportunity to do in my whole career as president of the United States,” Biden said.
He described how Native children were “stolen, taken away to places they didn’t know by people they’d never met who spoke a language they had never heard,” he said.
“Children would arrive at school, their clothes taken off, their hair that they were told [was] sacred was chopped off, their names literally erased and replaced by a number or an English name,” he continued, “emotionally, physically and sexually abused, forced into hard labor, some put up for adoption without the consent of their birth pare..
US election key to Latin American economies, says credit rating agency
FILE – A candy vendor walks past a Western Union branch in Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 25, 2023. The fate of Latin American economies, deeply reliant on remittances from the U.S., hangs in the balance with the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, Fitch Ratings said on Friday.
NASA astronaut hospitalized upon return from extended stay in space
This photo provided by NASA shows support teams working around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Oct. 25, 2024. (NASA/Joel Kowsky via AP)
Bassist Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead, dies at 84
FILE – Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead performs during a reunion concert in East Troy, Wis. Aug. 3, 2002. Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Oct. 25, 2024, at age 84.
Israel launches strikes on military targets in Iran
In this image taken from a video released by the Israel Defense Forces early on Oct. 26, 2024, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announces that the IDF is conducting strikes on military targets in Iran. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)
Party of ousted Bangladeshi PM Hasina planning protest
FILE – A mural of Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is posted on a pillar with a garland of shoes hanging on it, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sept. 28, 2024.